Now Playing Onstage in Austin - Week of 1/06/2013

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Yefim Bronfman, PIANO Dell Hall 1/11-1/12/2013
Grammy Award-winning pianist Yefim ("Fima") Bronfman is among the most talented virtuosos performing today. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have won consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences worldwide for his solo recitals, prestigious orchestral engagements and expanding catalog of recordings.
Click Here for More InformationTHE GAME'S AFOOTAustin Playhouse 12/13-1/13/2013
Austin Playhouse is opening their season with Ken Ludwig's sparkling new comic murder-mystery The Game's Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays). The play will open at Austin Playhouse's new temporary theatre space at Highland Mall.
It's December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, is shot onstage during a performance. While recuperating, he invites his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it's up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.
Click Here for More InformationINVISABLE INCRollins Studio Theatre at The Long Center (Produced by Hidden Room Theatre) 1/11-1/20/2013
INVISIBLE INC
The Hidden Room is proud to present Paul Menzer's (Brats of Clarence) stylish and crackling noire mystery INVISIBLE INC. This fantastical story swirls around feuding magicians in depression-era New York, one a classic showman in the ritzy theatre palaces of Manhattan, the other a roguish upstart struggling in the back alley speakeasies of downtown. Both men have something to prove, a lady to win, and a mystery to solve, but the only constant in this world of misdirection is danger.
Written by Paul Menzer, and starring Robert Matney, Liz Fisher, Joseph Garlock, Todd Kassens, Julia Lorenz-Olson, and back from the UK after his brilliant turn as Jack Cade in Rose Rage, Laurence Pears. Almost-live musical accompaniment nightly by the ghostly spectre of Graham Reynolds. Directed by Beth Burns, original music by Graham Reynolds, set by Ia Enstera, lights by Megan Reilly, props by Justin Cox. Proudly supported in part by the Redd Carpet Fund. Livestreamed on closing night, Sunday Janaury 20th at 5PM.
Appears at the Long Center's Rollins Studio January 11th, only to vanish into thin air January 20th.
The Long Center Rollins Studio
January 11-20, 2013 (Mon-Sat 8PM, Sun 5PM, dark on Jan 15th)
$18.50
running time approximately 90 minutes
www.hiddenroomtheatre.com
Click Here for More InformationELIZABETH: HEART OF A KINGThe VORTEX 1/11-1/26/2013
The VORTEX: - Lorella Loftus; dir: Lorella Loftus.
Click Here for More InformationQUILLSCity Theatre (Produced by Different Stages) 1/4-1/26/2013
January 4 – 26, 2013
City Theater, 3823 Airport Suite D
Performances Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 5:30pm
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Pick-Your-Price Tickets: $15, $20, $25, or $30
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Different Stages continues its 2011-2012 season with Doug Wright's Quills. Sex. Perversion. Violence. These are the themes of the tales that drip from the ink-laden quills of the notoriously irreverent Marquis de Sade in this Obie Award winning play. Confined to the Charenton Asylum for the Insane for the outlandish escapades he'd committed during the Napoleonic Era, the Marquis continues to pen his stories to the delight of the young seamstress, Madeleine, and to the scorn of Charenton's devout Abbe de Coulmeir. When the Abbe attempts to silence the Marquis by taking his quills, his ink, and his paper, something intriguing occurs: the Marquis still finds a way to voice his scandalous yarns. As the Abbe's religious devotion clashes with the Marquis's dedication to freedom of expression, the audience is treated to a tale of wit, irony, blasphemy, philosophy, and the struggle for power told partly as a blend of comedy of manners and Grand Guignol with a dash of grotesque exaggeration and a soupcon of gore.
Directed by Norman Blumensaadt (Is Life Worth Living?) Quills features Craig Kanne (You Can't Take it with You) as the Marquis de Sade and Jean Budney (Is Life Worth Living?) as his wife Renee Pelagie. Travis Bedard (Doctor Faustus) plays the director of Charenton Asylum. Joe Hartman (Vampire Lesbians of Sodom) plays the Abbe de Coulmier, a priest at the asylum. Melissa Vogt-Patterson (Humpty) plays the seamstress, Madeleine. Tony Salinas (You Can't Take it with You) plays the architect.
Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 5:30pm. Tickets are Pick-Your-Price: $15, $20, $25, and $30.
Click Here for More InformationDEARLY BELOVEDThe Palace Theater 1/11-2/3/2013
From the writing team that brought you last season's hit The Dixie Swim Club comes the hilarious story of the Futrelle sisters of Fayro, Texas, and one sister's quest to plan her daughter's antebellum-inspired wedding. Will the wedding be free from scandal, gossip, and skin-tight gold lame? Come see this rib-tickling southern comedy to find out.
Click Here for More InformationPUTTING IT TOGETHERWaterTower Theatre 1/11-2/3/2013
Main Stage: - lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Terry Martin.
Click Here for More InformationTRUZACH Theatre 1/10-3/10/2013
TRU starring Jaston Williams
Written by Jay Presson Allen
Directed by LARRY RANDOLPH
Greater Tuna star Jaston Williams inhabits Truman Capote in a virtuoso performance of the charming, acerbic, fragile, and enigmatic writer. In this one-man tour de force, Williams' astonishing portrayal of the In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's author is by turns hilarious, vulnerable, and confessional. The audience becomes confidants to TRU's trademark wit and honesty. Packed houses, standing ovations, and waves of laughter characterized this show in its initial run at ZACH Theatre 12 years ago making it the hottest ticket in town. This production promises to be even more fun this time around.
"A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison."
— Truman Capote
ZACH's Producing Artistic Director Dave Steakley says: "By popular demand, I am bringing back one of our favorite plays from a dozen years ago that featured one of our favorite performances—Jaston Williams as Truman Capote, the renowned writer who had a flair for drinking freely, living freely, dreaming freely, and jabbing freely at the underbellies of New York City's social elite. Just like the Greater Tuna characters that Jaston made famous, this role fits him like a glove. The play is hilarious and poignant in his hands, and the intimacy of the Whisenhunt Theatre makes it feel like you are having drinks with a great friend in their stylish apartment. The good news is that this friend has the best stories and gossip to share!"
Click Here for More InformationTRUZACH's Whisenhunt Stage 1/9-3/10/2013
Greater Tuna star Jaston Williams inhabits Truman Capote in a virtuoso performance of the charming, acerbic, fragile and enigmatic writer. In this one-man tour de force, Williams' astonishing portrayal of the In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's author is by turns hilarious, vulnerable and confessional. The audience becomes confidants to Tru's trademark wit and honesty. Packed houses, standing ovations and waves of laughter characterized this show in its initial run 12 years ago when it became the hottest ticket in town. This production promises to be even more fun!
Click Here for More InformationTRUZACH Theatre 1/9-3/10/2013
Whisenhunt Stage: - Jay Presson Allen; dir: Larry Randolph.
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